Fort Pierre on the Missouri
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Tableau 10. Fort Pierre on the Missouri
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Based on a pencil drawing in the Joslyn collection dated April 29, 1834, Bodmer's view of Fort Pierre, as reproduced in the aquatint series, describes what was then one of the largest of the American Fur Company's establishments on the upper Missouri River. Named for trader Pierre Chouteau, it had been erected near the site of an earlier, abandoned trading post on the opposite side of the river from the modern Pierre, South Dakota.

Bodmer had stopped here briefly in May, 1833, when Maximilian's party had transferred from the Yellow-Stone to another steamer bound for Fort Union, and had painted the portraits of several Sioux men and at least one woman in this vicinity. He again visited the Sioux village near the fort in 1834, on the return voyage downriver from Fort Clark, and made additional studies of Sioux camp life at this time.

Several of these later were featured in the European atlas as Vignette XXX and Tableaux 8, 9, 11, and 12.

Text by David Hunt, Director, Stark Museum, Orange, Texas, USA

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